There goes my dream of flying an F-16. (I was hoping to win the lottery one day to afford the purchase price). Yeah, I'm a sucker for a nice plane and I probably would blow all of my winnings on something silly.
Unfortunately, I have yet to win the lottery, but then again I have yet to purchase a lottery ticket. (The lottery is a tax on those who are bad at math)
Maybe I could setup a paypal account and ask everyone to give me money for my very own F-16. In return, if the slashdot community would help me purchase said assault aircraft I would inturn be highly influenced to target practice over some highly loathesome corporate office. *cough* sco *cough*
I don't make a living as a programmer and I still won't touch this. I want to keep my programming options open and I don't want to consider myself even remotely tainted.
However, if someone should glance upon the evil known as win2k source, I hear that are some mystical perl monks who can cleanse your soul.
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Ok, Ok...
First of all, I get the idea this person is not a veteran of the linux industry. He does a good job of navigating through what are essentially basic problems.
I don't think its worthy to mention he had his jumpers wrong... everyone makes a jumper mistake and it is fairly easy to diagnose.
His major fault.... He purchased a Win-TV 250. This card is pretty good actually with onboard hardware mpeg2 encoding. (I own a 250 as well as a vanilla hauppage win-tv) The drawback to the Win-TV 250 is it does not have tv out. He should have spent a couple extra bucks and got the 350.
The next big mistake was relying on some integrated tv out solution. It's been my experience that onboard has the tendency to be slightly different then their off board branded brotherin. Thus, I can easily see why he had some troubles.
He said it himself, he suffers from some impulse buying habbits. I think a little more research on compatability would have turned up better linux results. Personally, I went into the linux pvr project with absolutely no starting knowledge other then getting my hauppage card working a long long time ago. (out of the box support made it no chore). However, knowing nothing about the task prompted me to research, research and well... read more.
I wish he had tried a Knoppix MythTV Live CD as I would like to have seen the results. ie. used knoppix CD and it worked! (probably not with the odd video out)
If port density isn't your thing you can go for an Ascend max 6096 (96 modems) With a 6 users to 1 line ratio you can squeeze 576 users on that unit. You can grab a 6096 for 3k on ebay. You've got a myriad of options for lower end routing as well.
Really depends on your aims.
Accounting packages aren't hard to come by and I do believe freshmeat has a couple suites available.
It's quite affordable on the low end (assumming you don't want support for some of the aging gear).
I had a similar problem with my friends RC Car remote. It was one of the better cars for the hobbyist with too much money.
This was a while ago with my over clocked celeron.
The moment he fired up that damned car and pulled the trigger... bam... he blue screened my box. He had to be significantly close to cause this kind of interferance.
The bus was probably dealing with errors anyway as it wasn't holding up well with the strain of over clocking. Still, we could literally push a button and send out an RF wave of pc death.
I still have a Brooktree 848 card sitting on my desk. Like others have said, its just narrowing down your tuner, which is generally labeled on the unit.
I have also picked up a Hauppage PVR-250 card and it works well. I'm going to sell it and get a the 350 though. I want the TV out capabilities and not just vanilla capture.
I also have a DXR3 mpeg decoder, but I do not recommend this unit. It works alright with Xine. I remember it being more trouble then it was worth, but for 10$....
This is exactly the same story in my shop. Every application I have to fix and rework doesn't simply go to my personal patch folder. I would much rather have it part of a main branch so the issues gets resolved and hopefully in time it will be better then my fix.
We are actually seeing alot of vendor box's come in that use a great deal of free software and I suspect they perform similar services.
Here, I let management know that if it is under the GPL or similar license we are going to be submitting back fixes and in house scripts. Being we aren't a software shop they enjoy the exposure.
Unfortunately, we are just not profitable enough to really submit funds to organizations. I hope this changes in the future and one day I can tell management these guys really make our lives easy. It's time for a donation to the cause.
For a fact I know there are organizations who exist around Perl,Python,Sendmail (Heavily modified), etc and not one bit goes back. NDA bound not to say too much I'm afraid. However, I've seen massive scalability changes, authentication changes and whatnot. Some great work has been done in house and these companies are huge. Unfortunately, sometimes their work just doesn't conform to what people want back, but other then a patch or two I've never seen anything on the order of funding.
The man, the myth, the pimp. This is the PimpBot 5000. He combines the classic sensibilities of a 1950's robot with the dynamic flare of a 1970's street pimp.
Pimpbot 5000
I think he could have taken the Steam Man.
Yeah, I was thinking about a large sling shot too. I mean, Wile E. Coyote used several of them and they worked just find. Not counting the several times he maimed himself, but I'm thinking all the bugs should be worked out.
I have a sneaking suspcion they aren't going to submerge this thing in epoxy. that would be a little expensive and probably an utter pain when slapping it together. They probably intend to glue the cards in or something silly.
Your just crazy enough to make it to my friends list, welcome aboard buddy!
Steve and Bill are high on life per say. If you can call high on life smoking dubious amounts of crack-cocaine.
In the twisted ramblings of these two mad men there is a rhyme to their reason. It is just unfortunate that to discern their meanings you must be "in the zone."
Thus, Bill and Steve reached an agreeement they would be bundling crack with windows 2003 family edition.
Bill and Steve could not be reached for comment, but a spokesperson for Microsoft said they were all really buzzing with these new enhancements to the windows product line.
Most of my books in my core degree were always over a 100$. Thankfully, programming classes we were encouraged to use our copies over and over as reference. Live without them if we wanted and a selection of books were recommended from the bookstore (not required to purchase).
The hardware side of things generally re-used the same books. Newer revisions rarely changed the text (revision changes were highlighted by the prof). Of course when it did come to buying these books it did hurt. Finding used was also difficult as they tended to be good reference material even after school.
Now, core classes for general education it is a complete nightmare. Two to three quarter turn over time on most of them. Six months and its obsolete? English? Mathematics? Comon...
The biggest kick in the pants occurred when different books were selected by different professors for the same class. Hence the reason I began buying books a week late. If by chance I decided to change class times, I wouldnt ended up whining at the book store.
A god send, most students seemed to neglect, was our off campus book store. It was a non-profit book store which students used to sell books to each other. Complete volunteer and charity ran by a local church.
The engineering degree was one of the very few who used the practice described above. Every other degree I'm told ran pretty close to general education classes. Despite the hellish prices our book store managed to sink itself and change hands three times.
At one point a zombie just decides to start ripping off its limb that had been stabbed. I can't remember if a similar scene was performed in Evil Dead.
Within the woods is Evil Dead, but extremely low budget, which funded Evil Dead.
I don't know where you can find Within The Woods... other then some popular file sharing applications.
P2P networks don't exactly make it easy to find independent films... but its not exactly a bad method of distribution. Too bad there isn't a compensation method in there.
Bruce did a question and answer session on sci-fi channels irc server. This was about the same time of save farscape occurrance.
I saved the whole chat log somewhere, but he is just as funny in text as on stage.
It was a relatively small audience of about 300 chatters with a moderation/question submission in progress to keep the clammer down.
irc.sci-fi.com ? I think... they usually announce question/answer sessions in the topic.
Bruce is always very down to earth and is definately a little tired of the Evil Dead/AoD questions.
He said, he would love to do another one, but with the last movie not earning quite enough it wouldn't seem possible. As far as doing a lower budget flick, he commented on how difficult it would be to get Sam Raimi to go from 5 and 6 cameras to using just 1.
No, it wasn't a verite card, note I said I hacked the drivers to get them to install.
It merely gave the ability to run verite gl quake.
It was a graphics blaster (I think 3d was mentioned in there). Don't know where they got the 3d though. The drivers did not work well with my card. A reboot and they would come undone. Not to mention heavy screen artifacts. The card itself had no real 3d acceleration it seems.
Anyhow, it advertised stunning video game performance... maybe with side scrollers...
I had seen the verite cards... they performed well enough.
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Well hell...
There goes my dream of flying an F-16. (I was hoping to win the lottery one day to afford the purchase price). Yeah, I'm a sucker for a nice plane and I probably would blow all of my winnings on something silly.
Unfortunately, I have yet to win the lottery, but then again I have yet to purchase a lottery ticket. (The lottery is a tax on those who are bad at math)
Maybe I could setup a paypal account and ask everyone to give me money for my very own F-16. In return, if the slashdot community would help me purchase said assault aircraft I would inturn be highly influenced to target practice over some highly loathesome corporate office. *cough* sco *cough*
I don't make a living as a programmer and I still won't touch this. I want to keep my programming options open and I don't want to consider myself even remotely tainted.
However, if someone should glance upon the evil known as win2k source, I hear that are some mystical perl monks who can cleanse your soul.
Ok, Ok...
First of all, I get the idea this person is not a veteran of the linux industry. He does a good job of navigating through what are essentially basic problems.
I don't think its worthy to mention he had his jumpers wrong... everyone makes a jumper mistake and it is fairly easy to diagnose.
His major fault.... He purchased a Win-TV 250. This card is pretty good actually with onboard hardware mpeg2 encoding. (I own a 250 as well as a vanilla hauppage win-tv) The drawback to the Win-TV 250 is it does not have tv out. He should have spent a couple extra bucks and got the 350.
The next big mistake was relying on some integrated tv out solution. It's been my experience that onboard has the tendency to be slightly different then their off board branded brotherin. Thus, I can easily see why he had some troubles.
He said it himself, he suffers from some impulse buying habbits. I think a little more research on compatability would have turned up better linux results. Personally, I went into the linux pvr project with absolutely no starting knowledge other then getting my hauppage card working a long long time ago. (out of the box support made it no chore). However, knowing nothing about the task prompted me to research, research and well... read more.
I wish he had tried a Knoppix MythTV Live CD as I would like to have seen the results. ie. used knoppix CD and it worked! (probably not with the odd video out)
I thought they answered that one.
She never had great control of her emotions anyway and they hinted vulcans would be intentionally more emotionally.
There was no mystery to me that we would see these things.
Remember, this predates the original Star Trek in the time line.
Oh I can go much lower then that.
If port density isn't your thing you can go for an Ascend max 6096 (96 modems) With a 6 users to 1 line ratio you can squeeze 576 users on that unit. You can grab a 6096 for 3k on ebay. You've got a myriad of options for lower end routing as well.
Really depends on your aims.
Accounting packages aren't hard to come by and I do believe freshmeat has a couple suites available.
It's quite affordable on the low end (assumming you don't want support for some of the aging gear).
I for one, welcome our new OCC over lords.
I couldn't resists.
I shall now bathe in the cleansing flame.
I always stop and watch the new IBM commercials.
So yeah, if I see one, I rewind a bit and play it back. Then i tell my friends... this is hilarious... then we go back to skipping commercials.
Actually,
I had a similar problem with my friends RC Car remote. It was one of the better cars for the hobbyist with too much money.
This was a while ago with my over clocked celeron.
The moment he fired up that damned car and pulled the trigger... bam... he blue screened my box. He had to be significantly close to cause this kind of interferance.
The bus was probably dealing with errors anyway as it wasn't holding up well with the strain of over clocking. Still, we could literally push a button and send out an RF wave of pc death.
Indeed,
I still have a Brooktree 848 card sitting on my desk. Like others have said, its just narrowing down your tuner, which is generally labeled on the unit.
I have also picked up a Hauppage PVR-250 card and it works well. I'm going to sell it and get a the 350 though. I want the TV out capabilities and not just vanilla capture.
I also have a DXR3 mpeg decoder, but I do not recommend this unit. It works alright with Xine. I remember it being more trouble then it was worth, but for 10$....
Indeed,
This is exactly the same story in my shop. Every application I have to fix and rework doesn't simply go to my personal patch folder. I would much rather have it part of a main branch so the issues gets resolved and hopefully in time it will be better then my fix.
We are actually seeing alot of vendor box's come in that use a great deal of free software and I suspect they perform similar services.
Here, I let management know that if it is under the GPL or similar license we are going to be submitting back fixes and in house scripts. Being we aren't a software shop they enjoy the exposure.
Unfortunately, we are just not profitable enough to really submit funds to organizations. I hope this changes in the future and one day I can tell management these guys really make our lives easy. It's time for a donation to the cause.
For a fact I know there are organizations who exist around Perl,Python,Sendmail (Heavily modified), etc and not one bit goes back. NDA bound not to say too much I'm afraid. However, I've seen massive scalability changes, authentication changes and whatnot. Some great work has been done in house and these companies are huge. Unfortunately, sometimes their work just doesn't conform to what people want back, but other then a patch or two I've never seen anything on the order of funding.
The man, the myth, the pimp. This is the PimpBot 5000. He combines the classic sensibilities of a 1950's robot with the dynamic flare of a 1970's street pimp. Pimpbot 5000 I think he could have taken the Steam Man.
The old fashioned way...
Yeah, I was thinking about a large sling shot too. I mean, Wile E. Coyote used several of them and they worked just find. Not counting the several times he maimed himself, but I'm thinking all the bugs should be worked out.
Think about it...
Note, IANAALS (I am not an acme labs salesman)
Um...
There seems to be alot of "garbage" options enabled with that particular instance.
I don't enable style sheets, I stick with apache targeted webservers and I don't use java/dhtml for placement.
In the end, I'm left with about 4 descriptive meta tags at the beginning. I remove those meta tags by hand and they are never reinserted. voila
There are definately flaws in frontpage, but really you shouldn't use such a poor example that can be shot down so easily.
Sticking to the basics, sometimes things can behave badly with regards to tables and other quirks.
It's alright and there isn't a great deal of competition with a similar feature set.
Woh,
That's a little over kill buddy!
I have a sneaking suspcion they aren't going to submerge this thing in epoxy. that would be a little expensive and probably an utter pain when slapping it together. They probably intend to glue the cards in or something silly.
Your just crazy enough to make it to my friends list, welcome aboard buddy!
nah, if we can flash it back to a normal pc, I'll turn it into a PC PVR/Game station.
It's Official...
Steve and Bill are high on life per say. If you can call high on life smoking dubious amounts of crack-cocaine.
In the twisted ramblings of these two mad men there is a rhyme to their reason. It is just unfortunate that to discern their meanings you must be "in the zone."
Thus, Bill and Steve reached an agreeement they would be bundling crack with windows 2003 family edition.
Bill and Steve could not be reached for comment, but a spokesperson for Microsoft said they were all really buzzing with these new enhancements to the windows product line.
Unless of course it is an engineering book....
Most of my books in my core degree were always over a 100$. Thankfully, programming classes we were encouraged to use our copies over and over as reference. Live without them if we wanted and a selection of books were recommended from the bookstore (not required to purchase).
The hardware side of things generally re-used the same books. Newer revisions rarely changed the text (revision changes were highlighted by the prof). Of course when it did come to buying these books it did hurt. Finding used was also difficult as they tended to be good reference material even after school.
Now, core classes for general education it is a complete nightmare. Two to three quarter turn over time on most of them. Six months and its obsolete? English? Mathematics? Comon...
The biggest kick in the pants occurred when different books were selected by different professors for the same class. Hence the reason I began buying books a week late. If by chance I decided to change class times, I wouldnt ended up whining at the book store.
A god send, most students seemed to neglect, was our off campus book store. It was a non-profit book store which students used to sell books to each other. Complete volunteer and charity ran by a local church.
The engineering degree was one of the very few who used the practice described above. Every other degree I'm told ran pretty close to general education classes. Despite the hellish prices our book store managed to sink itself and change hands three times.
Not really sure why not from a design stand point. I took my laptop apart a few months ago to check out compatability with some new components.
One of the things I needed to check was the type of lcd screen used. Anyhow, at the outer edge of the lcd screen was just folded over metal.
Unless there is some electrical interferance... which I doubt because the outer edge is just plastic.
The big worry is you don't want to touch some things. You can get a nice jolt from those things.
Anyhow, inside, they are fairly compact, when prices come down a bit more I'll see about really putting two units side by side.
Its very, gooey er gory....
.... *drum roll* .... Bruce
At one point a zombie just decides to start ripping off its limb that had been stabbed. I can't remember if a similar scene was performed in Evil Dead.
Bruce plays
Other little things like that.
Still, pretty much Evil Dead though.
But....
Will it run on Linux?
Linux needs buzzword ridden software or whatever this is. FYI, I didn't read the article and I certainly don't want to! Ignorance is bliss.
Don't forget Evil Dead and Within The Woods.
Within the woods is Evil Dead, but extremely low budget, which funded Evil Dead.
I don't know where you can find Within The Woods... other then some popular file sharing applications.
P2P networks don't exactly make it easy to find independent films... but its not exactly a bad method of distribution. Too bad there isn't a compensation method in there.
Oh yeah...
As a side note, general bruce appearances will be listed on his website.
Bruce-Campbell.com
oh and don't forget to slashdot good ol wil too
WilWheaton.Net
Bruce did a question and answer session on sci-fi channels irc server. This was about the same time of save farscape occurrance.
I saved the whole chat log somewhere, but he is just as funny in text as on stage.
It was a relatively small audience of about 300 chatters with a moderation/question submission in progress to keep the clammer down.
irc.sci-fi.com ? I think... they usually announce question/answer sessions in the topic.
Bruce is always very down to earth and is definately a little tired of the Evil Dead/AoD questions.
He said, he would love to do another one, but with the last movie not earning quite enough it wouldn't seem possible. As far as doing a lower budget flick, he commented on how difficult it would be to get Sam Raimi to go from 5 and 6 cameras to using just 1.
Amendum...
Ogg/Vorbis
Gnu/*nix
Cowboy Neal
A late favorite, Naked and Petrofied
No, it wasn't a verite card, note I said I hacked the drivers to get them to install.
It merely gave the ability to run verite gl quake.
It was a graphics blaster (I think 3d was mentioned in there). Don't know where they got the 3d though. The drivers did not work well with my card. A reboot and they would come undone. Not to mention heavy screen artifacts. The card itself had no real 3d acceleration it seems.
Anyhow, it advertised stunning video game performance... maybe with side scrollers...
I had seen the verite cards... they performed well enough.